Overdub Bleed for Auto-Record

alexs1

Thought it'd be nice if there's a minor param for Auto-Record that gives a little bit of Overdub bleed after an Auto-Record ends, just for another variety of “forgiveness” for artifacts that happen when the loop closes.

jeff

Hmm, interesting. With normal Record, Overdub would end the recording and "stack" until after the recording ends (waiting if it is synchronized). So you get a seamless carryover of the audio from the original recording into the overdub layer. AutoRecord is sort of a form of sync recording and should behave the same way, but there are internal differences so it may not. I'm not at a development machine right now, what happens if you press Overdub in the middle of an AutoRecord?

alexs1

jeff

Hey, Jeff!

jeff what happens if you press Overdub in the middle of an AutoRecord?

For my application using MSL, I use AutoRecord followed by wait last and then Overdub (for like 70 msec, then Off); otherwise, IIRC, it doesn't execute the same way you would expect it to with a simple Record->Overdub sequence.

The code is one way to accomplish a narrow 'forgiveness window' of recording after AutoRecord finishes, in addition to the tiny volume bump that's already there, but writing it this way in MSL has historically introduced tangles in some of my more involved scripts.

The suggestion here is not necessarily a literal Overdub (function) that potentially creates new layers after AutoRecord, but a general param value (prob best set in msec) specifically for AutoRecord that allows a brief recording suture for the moment the loop is tied. In effect, it would help create a 'sound bridge' for smoothing out some of the artifacts that happen when the loop closes. For example, (given I don't have Questlove's gift of metric perfection) a drum beat's hi-hat would have a little headroom to finish its tssssss instead of a truncated t- at the end of an AutoRecord.